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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2008
Applicant:
Weidong Cao, Rockville, MD (US);
Inventor:
Weidong Cao, Rockville, MD (US);
Assignee:
Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc., Rockville, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C12P 19/34 (2006.01); C07H 21/00 (2006.01); C07D 279/00 (2006.01); G03G 13/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to novel unsymmetrical cyanine dyes and to methods of performing nucleic acid analysis in the presence of such dyes. More specifically, the present invention relates to novel unsymmetrical cyanine dyes that have high affinity to double-stranded nucleic acids and that do not inhibit amplification reactions, particularly the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).